About two weeks ago, I watched a bollywood film. But its different from other bollywood films. This film is directed by Danny Boyle. This movie is a romantic story between Jamal Malik and Latika, a couple which comes from the slum area in Mumbai.
When his lover went away without any hope to meet again, Jamal tried the last way which is join a quiz show in television called “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire”, one of Latika's favorite TV shows. By joining this show, Jamal hoped that Latika will see him in the TV and go back to meet him.
Nobody expected that Jamal, the office boy can answer all the questions one by one until he reached the final question for the 20 million rupee. For Jamal himself, it felt like his destiny because most of the questions that being asked made him remember his past. Every points in his important live, he got lots of knowledge that became the answers for each questions. From here, the film jumped to the past when little Jamal playing with his brother Salim, and his friends in the airport. No other place for them to play because the alley near their homes is too narrow to play marbles.
No amusement park, not enough chairs in the school, no appropriate toilet, and for bath and wash the clothes they do it in a public pool. One day when Jamal and Salim swim together in the public pool with their mother, a group of people from Hindi community came and attacked Jamal’s community which is Moslem community. A slash of a stick strike Jamal’s mother and made her die in the pool. Now only Jamal and Salim, running away to find a save place. In that scene, Jamal met Latika for the first time. They tried to survive together in a place where all the garbage collected.
One day, a male who claimed to be a person from the house of refugee, came to gave them a place and food. But after a while, that person that acted like a hero actually just wanted to use them to become a beggar.
Slumdog Millionaire shows all those stories in a realistic way. The density of the dirty settlement, crowded passenger in the top of a train, public restrooms that only uses a wall made from wood, and the asymmetry of a society that happens in Mumbai.
I think this movie is advancement in bollywood movies. Not like usual films from India, when in romantic movies, the actor and the actress always dancing and singing. Well, in this movie, the characters also dance, but it only at the ending of the film. A bollywood romantic movie should be like this, where they have to make an exciting story and lessen the dance and the sing.
When his lover went away without any hope to meet again, Jamal tried the last way which is join a quiz show in television called “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire”, one of Latika's favorite TV shows. By joining this show, Jamal hoped that Latika will see him in the TV and go back to meet him.
Nobody expected that Jamal, the office boy can answer all the questions one by one until he reached the final question for the 20 million rupee. For Jamal himself, it felt like his destiny because most of the questions that being asked made him remember his past. Every points in his important live, he got lots of knowledge that became the answers for each questions. From here, the film jumped to the past when little Jamal playing with his brother Salim, and his friends in the airport. No other place for them to play because the alley near their homes is too narrow to play marbles.
No amusement park, not enough chairs in the school, no appropriate toilet, and for bath and wash the clothes they do it in a public pool. One day when Jamal and Salim swim together in the public pool with their mother, a group of people from Hindi community came and attacked Jamal’s community which is Moslem community. A slash of a stick strike Jamal’s mother and made her die in the pool. Now only Jamal and Salim, running away to find a save place. In that scene, Jamal met Latika for the first time. They tried to survive together in a place where all the garbage collected.
One day, a male who claimed to be a person from the house of refugee, came to gave them a place and food. But after a while, that person that acted like a hero actually just wanted to use them to become a beggar.
Slumdog Millionaire shows all those stories in a realistic way. The density of the dirty settlement, crowded passenger in the top of a train, public restrooms that only uses a wall made from wood, and the asymmetry of a society that happens in Mumbai.
I think this movie is advancement in bollywood movies. Not like usual films from India, when in romantic movies, the actor and the actress always dancing and singing. Well, in this movie, the characters also dance, but it only at the ending of the film. A bollywood romantic movie should be like this, where they have to make an exciting story and lessen the dance and the sing.
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